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A reading of Peter Brown's “The Curious Garden” followed by a five-senses exploration of the community garden, with sensory boxes and nature-observation challenges for children aged 3 to 8, accompanied by an adult. Free entry, registration required.

A two-day medieval festival at São Jorge Castle in Lisbon, featuring workshops, guided tours, concerts, and activities for all ages, celebrating medieval history and culture.

A field drawing session in nature, treated as a fundamental observation tool, exploring contrast, shape and texture — no previous experience required. Each participant leaves with a field notebook of new sketches. Price: 15 euros, with online registration and organisation by DESIS Lab @Nova SBE.

A silk painting workshop with Paulo Valle, exploring the ancient technique and textile memory, combining color and composition experimentation.

the RESET takes over Penhasco Arte Cooperativa with a night built around the theme of Connection, merging DJ sets, live coding, workshops, food and conversation into one flowing experience. The bill features AEONA REX live-coding with Strudel, Leenو, Rayge.Uncovered and the The Auragrio, with phone-free areas to help you reconnect.

From September to December, Sintra Municipal Library hosts the 'Encounters of Wisdom' series, dedicated to the theme 'The Night Paths in the Sintra Hills' and the relationship between outer darkness and inner light.

Fuse Records throws its last open air, with free entry until 5 pm and sets from Echonomist, DJ Nox and Syper; the full programme is still to be announced.

On 26 September 2026, MU.SA – Sintra Museum of Arts hosts a meeting that brings art and writing together.

WAVS × afterglow take a limited-capacity catamaran onto the Tagus on Saturday 26 September for a three-hour session of melodic house & techno, tech house and deep house as Lisbon's skyline drifts by, with professional photography, drone footage and live-recorded DJ sets. Once the boat docks, the journey continues with a free afterparty at Secret Garden LX till late.

A guided tour of the Roman Theatre exploring the artistic installation 'O que Resta' and the role of fragments in the collection, revealing the work of archaeologists and artists.

Presentation of Francisco Duarte's first book, 'Amo-te em Todos os Universos', which explores seven universes and the fragile line between what we choose and what we lose. The author discusses the work, inspired by a true story and supported by Cascais City Council.

Screening of the documentary 'Summer of Soul' (2021), which revisits the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival and the celebration of African-American music.

afterglow takes over Lisbon's hidden Secret Garden for an open-air Saturday session, moving from warm melodic and progressive grooves into deeper house as daylight turns to sunset and evening. Entry is free with registration and capacity is limited.

At Quiosque, Arre Figura presents the immersive audiovisual performance “Liquid Gestures”, where sound and light waves guided by a theremin invite the audience to inhabit a single rhythm.

Intertwined closes the summer with a special edition in an enchanted forest in Almocageme, Colares, headlined by Hungarian artist Дeva, who blends downtempo electronics with traditional folk in a live solo concert. The day also brings DJ sets by Ed Dingli, Flying Snail and Tom Select, a dance embodiment practice, artisan pizzas, massages and intuitive readings.

Throwback returns to Lisbon on Saturday, September 26, from 5:00 PM to 11:00 PM, taking over the nature-surrounded Monsantos Open Air with the greatest hits of the 80s, 90s and 00s.

A four-hour boat party on the Tagus every Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7 pm, with a DJ mixing techno, deep house, reggaeton and club anthems, cocktails, sunset views of Belém and Praça do Comércio, and after-party entry included.

As part of Queer Lisboa at RSS, Passwar D premieres 'Omdre' in Lisbon, a deep listening live performance imagining a post-collapse world where sound no longer rises or falls but spreads in wide, sustained fields. RSVP by email for the location.

A performance inspired by Nan Shepherd's 'The Living Mountain', exploring the hidden elements of the mountain and our imaginative relationship with the wild, where the mountain is not a summit to be climbed but a place to enter. This show opens a rift and things happen.

The Anjoblues band concert is sold out.

Duo Senza Misura, with Ana Ester Santos on harp and Marina Camponês on transverse flute, presents a recital spanning works by Damase, Hoppe, Nino Rota, Takemitsu, Sérgio Azevedo, Tchaikovsky and Donizetti, in a programme that celebrates the ability of flute and harp to evoke images and emotions. Free admission, with registration, at Capela de S. Sebastião in Cascais.

The 6th edition of Rádio Quântica's non-profit community festival, Ano Q, takes place over two days at Galeria Zé dos Bois in Lisbon, celebrating the most intriguing sound iterations of the Portuguese scene with emerging and marginalized artists alongside pioneering but underrepresented ones.

South African house trio Mi Casa plays LAV – Lisboa ao Vivo on 26 September 2026 as part of their European tour celebrating the band's 15th anniversary, with their signature fusion of soul, house, jazz and Afro-pop.

A night walk through São Jorge Castle in the company of Biota biologists, using an ultrasound detector to observe and identify the castle's bat species — from the lesser horseshoe bat to the European free-tailed bat — while learning about the extraordinary role bats play in ecosystems.

The performance "Entre Nós" results from the encounter between dancers and young people, using the knot as a metaphor to explore human relationships. It takes place at Palmela Park, Cascais.

Fanna-Fi-Allah, one of the world's leading traditional Qawwali ensembles, brings the devotional music of the Sufi shrines to Lisbon in their 26th year of international touring, led by master vocalist Tahir Qawwal.

As part of the European Heritage Days, the Santa Marta Lighthouse Museum hosts an initiative on 26 September 2026 dedicated to the people of the cape and the lighthouse keepers of the southwest Algarve.

A theatrical performance exploring the concept of superstardom.

All You Can Laugh is a stand-up comedy night hosted by O Gajo do Bigode, featuring six comedians — Bruna Cunha, David Esteves, Manuel Schönenberger Braz, Marco Marques and Sérgio Lopes — for a relaxed evening of observations, stories and improvisation.

Azymuth, pioneers of “samba doido”, play Casa Capitão in Lisbon, celebrating more than fifty years of career and the album “Marca Passo”.

A concert experience scheduled for 26 September 2026 at the Sociedade Filarmónica João Rodrigues Cordeiro in Lisbon.

MagMell return to Casa do Fauno, where they have played since the venue opened, with their contagious music: an energetic journey through Irish sounds and landscapes that revisits and reinvents the language of Trad Folk.

Mark William Lewis creates soundscapes that evoke the past and present of pop, indie, and ambient, yet sound new and relevant. His short, simple, direct songs create an open dialogue with the listener, blending soft jazz, DIY Steely Dan sophistication, and the lost romance of Lewis Baloue.

Brunch Electronik and Fuse Records close the season with their final Open Air on September 26th at Village Underground Lisboa, making the most of one of the last sunny afternoons of music and dancing outdoors.

The Little Readers' Party celebrates young readers at the National Library of Portugal in Lisbon on 26 September 2026.

The Francisco Fino Gallery presents One Million Points of Light, the first Alfredo Jaar solo show in Portugal, bringing together three fundamental works that reflect on the politics of the image, historical memory and the spectator's ethical responsibility.

Baltazar Molina presents Between Worlds at Casa Palestina, an intimate concert exploring intersections between musical traditions, improvisation and sonic experimentation. The musician's work is strongly inspired by Middle Eastern music but crosses different techniques and languages.

Berimbau debuts a new samba and pagode roda at Giro’Giro in Jardim do Campo Grande, with free entry. The event brings Brazilian music from late afternoon to night, with a continuous program from 5 PM to 11 PM.

The Capitólio rooftop hosts the second edition of Cinecapitólio, with curation by Rui Pedro Tendinha and an open-air cinema programme for the whole family, ranging from classics to contemporary works, as part of Festas de Lisboa.

'CommedIA a La Carte 2026' takes the Lisbon stage as a theatrical comedy that blends the tradition of commedia dell'arte with artificial intelligence, promising an evening of contemporary humour.

A route through Lisbon revealing the most terrible and bloody episodes in the capital's history — events that on several occasions changed the life of the city forever.

Draconian perform at LAV - Lisboa Ao Vivo as part of the Under the Doom Festival 2026, with their atmospheric gothic doom metal and the return of Lisa Johansson.

Comedian Kanan Gill presents his stand-up show 'Not This Again'.

(R)encontro no Azulejo proposes a sensitive dialogue between two generations of artists, Lourdes Castro and Ilda David, built around the relationship between light and shadow.

Live music at Clube da Praia, Praia das Maçãs, every Friday and Saturday night.

Live Brazilian music at the Orixás restaurant and gallery every Friday and Saturday at dinner.

Live traditional Portuguese music at Taverna dos Trovadores every Friday and Saturday.

'Pure Madness' is a theatre piece that dives into delirium and chaos, promising Lisbon audiences an intense and irreverent stage experience.

An anthological exhibition dedicated to Paulo Bruscky (b. 1949, Recife, Brazil), one of the pioneers of conceptual art in Brazil, offering a comprehensive reading of his career since the 1970s.

The Rogério Pitomba Quartet performs at Voz do Operário in a night where modern jazz meets Brazilian rhythms and improvisation. Led by Brazilian drummer Rogério Pitomba, the group explores the dialogue between drums, piano, double bass and saxophone.

In this stage comedy, the story of 'Romeo and Juliet' is told from Rosaline's point of view — Juliet's cousin and Romeo's former flame — who finally gets a voice of her own on stage.

Rui Massena gives a free concert at Quinta da Alfarrobeira in Lisbon, bringing his neoclassical piano writing to a historic setting. The performance is part of the Parents' House project, built around family memory and the idea of home as an affective place.

Teresa Macedo Ferreira presents a viola recital at the Sala Experimental of Teatro Municipal Joaquim Benite, featuring works by Rebecca Clarke, Joaquín Turina, Dobrinka Tabakova and York Bowen.